Filter and cleaner therefor.



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LEON DION, OF WILKES-BARRE, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO THE AMERICUS ELEOTRO-HERMETIC COMPANY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

A CORPORATION OF ARIZONA TERRITORY.

FILTER AND CLEANER THEREFOR.

NoV 829,576.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 28, 1906.

Application mednmh 25, 1905. ,semi No. 252,071.

To all whom it may concern:

.Be it known that I, LoN DION, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Wilkes- Barre, in the county of Luzerne and State of Pennsylvania, have invented .certain new and useful Improvements in Filters and in Cleaners Therefor, of which the following is a specification.

My invention while relating to filters that are employed in the purification of various substances is especially applicable to filters vthat are employed to remove mechanical parts, all as will hereinafter more fully appear.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification, Figure 1 is a vertical aXial section of a filterand cleaner constructed in accordance with my invention; and Fig. 2, a transverse section thereof, taken in the plane a; a: of Fig. 1.

In the drawings, A indicates the tankor reservoir which receives the water or other ,material to be filtered and which is delivered thereto from the source of supply (not shown) through a suitable pipe or main A. This tank or reservoir may be constructed in various forms. In the embodiment of the invention which I have selected for the purposes of illustration, however, it is constructed of rectangular form, with an opening a in one of its sides, through which access may be had to itsinterior to remove the contents thereof or otherwise and which said opening is or may be closed when desired by a cap or cover a', detachably secured `thereover by screw-threads or by other equivalent'means, as may be preferred. As thusl constructed this tank or reservoir A receives and supports a chamber B, which is mounted thereon and which is preferably constructed with its side walls in the form of an annular shell or casing b, with its lower end threaded or otherwise secured in a suitable orifice a2, formed in the top of the tank or reservoir A, and its upper end provided with an invertedcup-shaped cover or cap b, threaded or otherwise secured thereon. Within the chamber B as thus constructed is the filter O, by means of which the filtration of the water or other material is effected. This filter may be of any ordinary or preferred construction. As here shown, however, it is composed of a cylindrical body c, which is somewhat less in diameter than the interior of the chamber B and is formed from any suitable foraminated or reticulated material, with convex ends c', applied thereto, and which are or may be struck up or otherwise formed from imperforate material, if so desired. As thus constructed this body c,

with its ends c, is supported upon a verticall aXis within the chamber B by a short shaft or stud c2, which is or may be threaded at its upper end in the bottom end c/ of the body c and is supported at its lower end from the bottom of the tank or reservoir A, while from the top end c of the body extends an outletpipe c3, which is or may be threaded at its lower end therein and is connected at its own upper end with a similar pipe c4, which leads to the place of discharge. Thev body c, with its ends c, being thus supported within the chamber B has applied to its exterior a layer of filtering material c5, through which the water or liquid is passed and the separation of all particles of metal or other foreign substances therefrom effected. In the selection of this filtering material any appropriate substance that is adapted for the purpose may be adopted. I prefer, however, to employ felt as the filtering medium and to apply it over both the foraminated or reticulated cylindrical portion c of the filter-body and over the imperforate ends c thereof and to hold it firmly in that relationship by concave clamping members c, which are held firmly clamped against the respective top and bottom ends c by nuts c7 and es, of which the butts c7 engage with the threaded portions of IOO the short shaft or stud c2 and coperates with the lower clamping member, while the nut e8 similarly engages with the threaded portion of the outlet-pipe c3 and cooperates with the upper clamping member, as shown.

With the filter constructed and arranged as above explained the water or other material rising in the chamber B will pass through the filter and thence flow upward through the outlet-pipe c3 andc* to the place of discharge. In thus passing through the -filter any particles or foreign substance contained in thewater or other material and held in suspension therein will be arrestedbythe filter-covering c5 as such water or other liquid passes therethrough, and such covering in time becomes more or less clogged or contaminated by them in consequence thereof unless provisions are made for their removal. In order, therefore, to obviate this clogging or contamination, l employ means whereby the particles or other substances that accumulate thereon may be removed and the covering thereby renovated'from time to time. These means in my preferred form of construction consists of loose masses of small broken stone or pebbles. I prefer, however, to employ small pebblesfor the purpose; but whatever its nature'the separate constituents are preferably of a size sufficientlylarge to be incapable of passing downwardly through the space between thefilter and the inner edge of the inwardly-projecting flange a4. The cleaning material being thus arranged and being in contact with the exterior of the covering a5 of the filter,'the cleaning' of this covering may be effected by a relative movement between its outer surface and the interior cooperating surface of the mass ofthe cleaning material. To permit of this relative movement being accomplished when it is ydesired to effect it through the filter, the lower end of the short shaft or stud c2 is formed as a step c", which rests in an appropriate step-bearing C10, supported upon the bottom of the tank or reservoir A, while the outlet-pipe c3, instead of extending to the place of discharge, is so united at its upper end with a similar pipe c4, leading to that destinationI by a coupling cv as to be capable of rotation i thereon. As thus arranged the rotation of the filter in the cleaning material when desired may be effected by any convenient means. ln thev form of the inventionshown in the drawings, however, it is 'effected by a handle @12, what is exeaiy Secured to the outlet-pipe` c3 by a set-screw cl3, v` and in order to prevent the escape of the water or otherl material being filtered around this pipe, while yet allowing of the rotation of the pipe within the cap or'cover b', this cap o'r cover, instead of having the pipe fixedly secured therein, is provided with a stufling-box c, through which the -pipe passes and in which it may berotated asrequired.

With the parts constructed as above described when water or other material is admitted under pressure to the tank or reservoir A it will rise 'through the passageway between the inneredge of the flange a4 in the orifice a2 and the exterior surface of the filter and pass through the filter-covering into the filter, from which it will pass upward and `outward through the discharge-pipes c3 and c4 to the point of discharge. In thus tpassing .through the covering of the lter any particles or other foreign substances held in suspension in the Water or other material -will be arrested and only the purified water or other material allowed to enter the filter and thence pass to the place of discharge. The particles or other foreign substances thus arrested by the covering of the filter will after a more or less protracted use of the filter serve to clog or arrest the passage of thewater or other material therethrough, and their removal therefrom will fromtime'to time be necessary. ln order, therefore, toeffect this removal, a continuous or a backeandeforth rotation will be imparted to the filter through the handle c12 or otherwise for a shorttime, when the action of the cleaning material lD upon the exterior surface of the filter will scrape or remove such particles or other impurities adhering thereto and leave the filter freefor its further operation.

From the foregoing, therefore, it will thus be seen that l produce a filter and a `cleaner therefor which are at once not only simple and comparatively inexpensive in construction and convenient and eflicie'nt in voperation, but which are extremely compact'and admirably suited to the purposes for which they are intended.

Although in the drawings l have shown and in the above described the best means contemplated by me for Vcarrying my invention into practice, l do not Vlimit myself strictly thereto, as it is also obvious that various of the details of construction may be varied in different ways Without departing from the spirit of the invention.

Having now described my invention and specified certain of the ways in 'which itl is vor 'may be carried into effect, I claim .and desire to secure by Letters Patentl of the United States- The combination, with a perforatedcylindrical body provided with convex ends'and-a covering of appropriate filtering material, -Va chamber in whichit is arranged, and' means by which the material to be filteredv maybe supplied to the exterior of the filter, of a step and bearing upon which the lter is supported, concave clampling members lfor clamping the covering of t e filtering material 4to the convex ends of the cylindrical body, means for forcing the concave clamping membersagainst such convex ends, a -loosemass of IOC IIO

broken stone or pebbles interposed between respect to the other, substantially as dethe exterior of the filter-covering and the inscribed. 1o

terior of the chamber in Which 1the filter is ar- In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my ranged, means by Which a movement around hand this 18th day of Mareh1905.

its axis may be imparted to the ilter7 and a discharge-pipe leading from the interior of said lter and providedWith a coupling which allows of the movement of one member with LEON DION.

Witnesses:

WM. H. APPLETON, R. F. SWEENY. 

